I would never spend more on my case and PSU than on my graphics card. I am also a fan of Patriot memory, never had an issue with it, and it is less expensive than corsair.The Intel "i" processors are great.
I think you should try and keep your budget low. When building computers it is always super easy to get excited and carried away from what you really need...
While I agree people shouldn't spend insane amounts on cases and PSU's, it's also often understated the luxury of a good case.. The difference in cases can mean much better wiring and cooling. Personally I'd never treat a new (performance) computer to an off-brand PSU i've never heard of. An off-brand might be "rated" at 1k watts, but a good 850watt brand like cooler-master, antec, etc will almost always outlast them.
On that note, have you considered looking into a coolermaster case and PSU? Might be a little cheaper and still get good quality:
Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKN1-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Im betting the crucial SSD will outlast most hard drives, older SSD's werent too reliable but the crucial SSD's are awesome, I've built a few builds for customers with them at the shop.
Patriot isn't "bad" memory but corsair is definitely better, my two favorite memory brands are kingston and corsair. More likely to run into compatability issues with other brands such as patriot, gskill, etc.
I agree with the others though.. Go intel with an I7, AMD may be cheaper but I7 will perform better and give you less problems when it comes to most of the boards. For instance, if you got an AMD 6 core you'd have to make sure the board ships 6 core ready and not "6 core compatable." A lot of people ordering 6 core boards found themselves with boards that had old bios releases and couldn't run the 6 core processors until they found a cheap sempron or other AMD processor to update the bios with..
Personally I've build a lot of I7/I5 builds and a lot of sick AMD builds, and I always spent less time getting the intels up and running and looked forward to building them more, and they showed the difference in benchmarks such as 3dmark too.
When it comes to seagate vs WD, as long as you go with one of the two you should be fine, any other offbrand is asking for trouble, I personally always go with WD though, 80% of the drive failures I see at my work are brands other than seagate or WD
I will say you picked a great board too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
What HSF do you use to OC your i7??
Check out this heatsink:
Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Intel Core i7 compatible V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
I've used it in about 10 builds and it works great, cools well and looks good too. Overclocked both AMD and intel processors pretty well with it. Had the 6 core extreme I7 running at 4.2 stable on air with it (customer didnt want us to push it too hard so I didnt go any further)
My 2 cents is usually when I spend 1-2k or know someone spending that much on a computer, I usually like to make sure it's "futureproofed" for at least 4 years, meaning it has room to upgrade and can power said upgrades too.
